Stinsford is a Town in the county of Dorset.

Retail in Stinsford

There are great places to visit near Stinsford including some great towns, waterfalls, villages, historic buildings, historic monuments, ancient sites, hills, castles, ruins and airports.

Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Weymouth, Bridport, Beaminster, Wareham, and Blandford Forum are great places to visit near Stinsford if you like towns.

Waterfalls to visit near Stinsford include Jericho Weir.

Stinsford has some unmissable villages nearby like Uplyme, Bincombe, Symondsbury, and Abbotsbury.

The area around Stinsford's best historic buildings can be found at The Cobb.

King's Statue (King George III Statue) is a great place to visit close to Stinsford if you like historic monuments.

Don't miss Eggardon Hill, Hambledon Hill, Badbury Rings, Kingston Russell Stone Circle, The Nine Stones, and Maiden Castle's ancient sites if visiting the area around Stinsford.

There are a several good hills in the area around Stinsford like Eggardon Hill.

Don't miss Corfe Castle's castles if visiting the area around Stinsford.

Corfe Castle is one of Stinsford's best, nearby ruins to visit in Stinsford.

There are a several good airports in the area around Stinsford like Bournemouth Airport.

Stinsford History

There are some historic monuments around Stinsford:

• Medieval settlement remains at Whitcombe
• Ancient settlement SW of Incombe Wood
• The Rainbarrows, a group of three bowl barrows on Duddle Heath
• Two bowl barrows on Green Hill 450m north of Pound Farm
• Part of Roman, Saxon, and medieval town in grounds of Wollaston House
• Four bowl barrows at the eastern end of Waterston Ridge, 490m south west and 500m south east of Ridge Farm
• Two bowl barrows on Lord's Down 580m south east of Crawthorne Farm
• Seven round barrows NW of Lyscombe Bottom
• Two round barrows N of Came Farm
• Bowl barrow 450m north west of Duck Dairy House
• Preston Roman villa
• Group of round barrows near Eweleaze Barn
• Linear earthworks around Lyscombe Bottom
• Cerne Park boundary bank
• Round barrow 1/4 mile (400m) N of Ridge Hill
• Round barrow 250yds (230m) W of Fryer Mayne manor house
• Round barrow SW of Wolfeton Clump
• Tithe barn (uninhabited portion) at Barton Farm
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 600m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush
• Round barrow N of Boswell's Plantation
• Long barrow, three bell barrows, fancy barrow and a linear earthwork 800m north of Maiden Castle
• Round barrow cemetery immediately south east of Maiden Castle
• Two barrows 600yds (550m) N of Halls Farm
• Barrow S of Common Plantation
• Group of round barrows on and to E of Great Hill
• Medieval settlement 850m north of St Mary's Church
• Round barrow N of Forston Barn
• Bowl barrow on Green Hill 400m north of Pound Farm
• Cerne Abbey, site of, including gatehouse, guesthouse and wine house (barn)
• Round barrow on Stratton Down
• Sandy Barrow
• Six round barrows W of Came Down
• Enclosure near 'the Sole Plantation'
• Round barrow NE of Hog Hill Barn
• Two bowl barrows 720m south east of Friar Waddon House
• Bell barrow 70m west of Fidler's Green
• Round barrow in Grimstone Clumps
• Colliton Park Roman house
• Medieval settlement immediately west of Waterston House
• Round barrow on Black Hill
• Barrow S of Tinker's Barrow Plantation
• Long barrow immediately north west of Maiden Castle
• Maiden Castle
• Medieval settlement of North Louvard
• Herringston round barrows
• Kerbed cairn 590m south east of Poxwell Manor
• Medieval settlement of Winterborne Farringdon and associated remains
• Two barrows W of Little Piddle Down
• Upton Fort, a coastal artillery battery and two searchlight emplacements
• Round barrow NW of Jackman's Cross
• Hill figure called The Giant
• Three barrows S of Hart Hill Plantation
• Churchyard cross
• Settlement on Dickley Hill
• Round barrow E of Bayard's Barn
• Four bowl barrows on Hog Hill, west and north west of Maiden Castle
• Disc barrow 715m west of Bayard Farm
• Barrow S of Three-Cornered Plantation
• Settlement on Smacam Down
• Ancient settlement E of Lyscombe Bottom
• Humpty Dumpty Field, Radipole
• Round barrows on Four Barrow Hill
• Medieval standing cross 6m north east of St Martin's Church
• Barrows in Came Wood
• Medieval settlement at West Ringstead
• Round barrow on Cheselbourne West Down
• Bowl barrow on Wood Hill 310m north east of Cowden
• Three barrows S of Poxwell Big Wood
• Three bowl barrows at the western end of Waterston Ridge, 360m north west of Fidler's Green Farm
• Fishpond at West Ringstead, 590m south of Pit House
• Four bowl barrows immediately north west of Maiden Castle
• Group of barrows S of Goldsmith's Plantation
• Bowl barrow on Little Puddle Hill, 920m north west of Fidler's Green Farm
• Medieval settlement of Little Piddle
• Three bowl barrows 530m and 350m north east of Whitcombe Barn
• Bowl barrow on East Hill 510m north east of All Saints Church
• Roman road in Kingston Park
• Barrow on College Down
• Earthwork and ancient fields SE of Lyscombe Bottom
• Barrow E of Red Barn
• Lord's Barrow: a bowl barrow 500m north of Northground Dairy
• Cross-ridge dyke on Windsbatch
• Lyscombe Farm chapel
• Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill
• Bingham's Melcombe deserted village
• Earthwork in Bowley's Plantation
• Barrow 500yds (450m) E of village
• Group of four round barrows in Cripton Wood
• Court Close settlement remains
• Group of barrows on the golf course, Came Down
• Two round barrows at Down Wood
• Round barrow SW of Ashton Cottages
• Huck Barrow in Knighton Heath Wood
• Bowl barrow 400m south east of Melcombe Newton House
• Deserted village of Bardolfeston
• Group of three round barrows NE of Jackman's Cross
• Four bowl barows 710m north, 750m north west and 950m north west of Clyffe House
• Round barrow N of Ridgeway
• Barrow 200yds (180m) N of the White Horse
• Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 400m north east of Duck Dairy House
• Two round barrows N of Bincombe Barn
• Cross in St Mary's churchyard
• Round barrow NE of Friar Waddon
• Two bowl barrows 560m south east of Hill Barn
• Bowl barrow 600m south of Whitcombe Farm
• Tudor and 17th century farmstead and Romano-British settlement
• Round barrow S of Manor Farm
• Group of round barrows on Ridgeway
• Long barrow and four bowl barrows 500m north west of Whitfield Farm
• Bowl barrow 500m north east of Clandon Farm
• Bowl barrow 380m west of Whitfield Farm
• Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill 500m north of Whitcombe Farm
• Round barrow E of Forston Farm
• Bowl barrow 200m south east of Hill Barn: one of a group of three barrows
• Two round barrows S of Ashton Farm
• Group of round barrows on North Bincombe Hill, S of Came Wood
• Bell barrow in Highfield Plantation and two bowl barrows immediately north west of Forty Acre Plantation
• Barrow on Galton Heath
• Round barrow N of Ashton Cottages
• Settlement and field system on Black Hill
• Two bowl barrows 200m south east of Hill Barn: two of a group of three barrows
• Mayne stone circle (at Little Mayne Farm)
• Henge, Romano-British amphitheatre and Civil War fieldworks known collectively as Maumbury Rings
• Sandy Barrow W of East Farm Dairy
• Bowl barrow 615m north east of Hardy's Birthplace
• Two bowl barrows 320m south west of Laycock Dairy Farm
• Group of round barrows on Bincombe Hill
• The Clandon Barrow, 450m west of Clandon Farm
• Two square enclosures in Tenant's Bottom
• Henge Enclosure, Conquer Barrow and Barrow Cemetery
• Bowl barrow on Burleston Down 840m south east of Crawthorne Farm
• Oval barrow and three bowl barrows 250m and 330m south of Whitcombe Barn
• Group of barrows on West Hill
• Four barrows on Moigns Down
• Two round barrows on Ridgeway
• Discontinuous surviving sections of Roman aqueduct
• Bowl barrow on Pond Eweleaze 500m north east of Dole's Ash Farm
• Roman road over Thorncombe Wood and Black Heath
• Round barrow W of Druce Higher Barn
• Two round barrows SW of Well House Cottage
• Two round barrows on Ridgeway
• Bowl barrow on Wancombe Hill 380m south west of southern corner of Sherriffs Wood
• Three round barrows on Puddletown Down
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 740m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush
• Three bowl barrows on Puddletown Heath, 550m south west of Beacon Corner
• Medieval settlement at Holworth
• Round barrow on Ridgeway Hill
• Settlement remains N of Maiden Castle
• Round barrow on Hog Leaze
• Multi-period landscape including an Iron Age or Romano British settlement, part of an associated field system, six bowl barrows and an enclosure 600m south east of Langford Farm
• Long barrow 400yds (360m) NW of Hill Barn
• Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 600m west of Stafford Farm
• Six round barrows on Bincombe Down
• Barrow S of Wolfeton Clump
• Six barrows on Ridgeway Hill
• Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent
• Earthworks on Giant Hill
• Dorchester Roman walls
• Icehouse at Ringstead, 660m south west of Pit House
• Romano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan Hill
• Two barrows on Little Puddle Hill
• Bowl barrow 360m south west of Clandon Farm
• Bowl barrow1050m WNW of Manor Farm
• Two round barrows in Doles Hill Plantation
• Culliford Tree long barrow and group of round barrows
• Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 800m south west of Coombe Barn
• George III, chalk-cut hill side figure
• Group of round barrows NE of Hog Leaze
• Round barrow N of Heave Coppice
• Bowl barrow 75m south east of Laycock Dairy Farm
• Three barrows N of Penn Hill
• Group of barrows E of Northdown Barn
• Multi-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fields
• Friar Waddon Hill round barrows
• Two bowl barrows immediately south of Bayard Dairy
• Group of barrows in Seven Barrow Plantation
• Round barrow on Dickley Hill
• Group of round barrows W of Ridgeway Hill
• Round barrow SW of Bourne Farm
• Poundbury Camp, associated monuments and section of Roman aqueduct.
• Round barrows on Ridgeway